Jacques Hymans
Assistant Professor, Smith College
“The Emergence and Persistence of the Non-Nuclear Weapons State Club: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis”

Miho Iwasawa
Senior Research Fellow, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research
“The Retreat from Marriage in Japan and the U.S. – Later Marriage, Divorce, Nonmarital Childbearing and the Well-being of Mothers and Children”

Yuko Kawanishi
Professor, Tokyo Gakugei University
“Midlife Depression and Social Interventions in the United States: Lessons for Japan”